ARTIST CV

CURRENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Connecting Worlds, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, FRANCE
Selected work: BODY OF CHRIST, in 12 parts. 2000

SACRED + FORBIDDEN, MCA, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Lifting the TAPU, C3west Programme 2024, MCA, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

RECENT RESIDENCY & SOLO EXHIBITION

SouthLink ARTS Festival / International Artist Residency, TAIWAN
Commissioned new works + new acquisition The Creation of ADAM + Anatomy of a TATAU Lesson

FINALIST

86th Blake Prize, (3rd time) Finalist, CPAC- Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Selected work: "The Creation of ADAM"

UPCOMING GROUP EXHIBITION

South by South East, HONG KONG

2024

Connecting Worlds, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, FRANCE
Selected work: BODY OF CHRIST, in 12 parts. 2000

SACRED + FORBIDDEN, MCA, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Lifting the TAPU, C3west Programme 2024, MCA, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

2022

QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection, NGV / National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA

Polyphonic Reverb Curated by Mark Feary, Gertrude Contemporary, Preston, VIC, AUSTRALIA

2023

NAKED + NUDE Art Prize 2023, Manning Regional Gallery, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Then and There, Here and Now: Portraits of Sāmoa, New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND

2023 South Art Season - "Dreaming Back to the South", TaiTung Art Museum, TaiTung, TAIWAN (multiple venues)

2021

Royal Over-Seas League Photography Biennale 2021-International Friendship, Over-Seas House, London, UK
Looking through the Window - Portrait of Tereza Crvenkovic

Biennale Jogja IVX Equator #6 2021, Jogja National Museum, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA
RED COATS + INDIANS 2.0

2021 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, The Sovereign Art Foundation, HONG KONG
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK AND OTHER COLONIAL CATASTROPHES from the series RED COATS + INDIANS / The Games We Play

RITUAL: the past in the present, Cairns Art Gallery, QLD, AUSTRALIA
selected works from the series Body on the Line

2020

William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, MGA / Monash Gallery of Art, VIC, AUSTRALIA
Battle Cry from the series RED COATS + INDIANS / The Games We Play

2019

TATAU : Samoan Tattooing and Photography, TePapa Tongarewa / Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND

Sublime Sea: rapture and reality, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery/MPRG, VIC, AUSTRALIA

HERE : From Kupe to Cook, Pātaka Art + Museum, Porirua City, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND

LIQUORICE ALL SORTS , Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Bondi Beach, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Weapons for the SOLDIER - Protecting Country, Culture and FAMILY, Hazlehurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Multiple venues; Touring nationwide till 2022

2018

Chaos & Order - 120 years of collecting at RMIT, RMIT University Art Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA

Weapons for the Soldier, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sutherland Shire, NSW, AUSTRALIA
New work: 3 Brothers, 3 bodies, 3 landscapes

Oceania Rising: Wayfinders, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre / CPAC, Liverpool, NSW, AUSTRALIA

65th Blake Prize 2018, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centra / CPAC, Liverpool, NSW, AUSTRALIA
New work: Dead body of Christ in Two Parts, Diptych

2017

Collective Vision: 130 Years, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC, AUSTRALIA

The Return, Bondi Pavilion Gallery, Bondi Beach, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Middle of Now | Here, The inaugural Honolulu Biennale, Honolulu, HAWAII, USA

Here, Now, Then, Always, The Pah Homestead, TSB Bank Wallace Arts Centre, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

2016

Art of the Pacific : NGV Collection Focus, NGV / National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA

Provenance Does Matter : Living with Contemporary Art, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, VIC, AUSTRALIA

DENFAIR 2016, Melbourne Convention Centre, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA

PASSION / Fan Behaviour and Art, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, GERMANY
Traveling exhibition: Germany + Europe. Commissioned new work: Black Bird Rising

2015

Personal Structures / Crossing Borders, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, ITALY

Sydney Contemporary 2015, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Represented by Alcaston Gallery.

Niu Warrior, Griffith Regional Gallery, Griffith, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Body on the Line

2013

Headcount, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, Aotearoa / NEW ZEALAND 62nd Blake Prize 2013, College of Fine Arts / COFA, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
New work: 3 heads of John the Baptist, multimedia video installation

Sydney Contemporary 2013, Carriageworks, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Represented by Alcaston Gallery

Paradise Lost? Contemporary Art from the Pacific, UBC Museum of Anthropology multiple venues, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA

Body on the Line + Mana Pasifika, Logan Art Gallery, Logan City, QLD, AUSTRALIA

2011

Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation / Signature Art Prize, Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE

The Last Cannibal Supper, galerie METROPOLIS, Paris, FRANCE

Unnerved, The New Zealand Project, National Gallery of Victoria / NGV, Melbourne, VIC, AUSTRALIA
Touring exhibition

Oceania / Imagining the Pacific, City Gallery, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND

2010

Unnerved, The New Zealand Project, Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art / QAGGOMA, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA

Body Pacifica, Casula Powerhouse Art Centre, Liverpool, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Commissioned new work: Body on the Line

2009

The Great Journey : In Pursuit of the Ancestral Realm, KMFA / Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN

2008

Samoa Contemporary, Pataka Museum, Porirua - Wellington, NEW ZEALAND

2007

La Mêlée des Cultures / The Scrum of Cultures, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, FRANCE
Commissioned new work: The Battle of the Noble Savage

2005

Smoke and Mirrors, Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art / QAGGOMA, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA

L’Art Urbain du Pacifique / Urban Art from the Pacific, Chateau de Saint Auvent, Saint-Auvent, FRANCE

DRAFT, Gallerie Agnes B, Paris, FRANCE
Artist diary, drawings + sketches

2004

Ka kino to pounamu he pounamu onamata, Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

2002

Oeil pour oeil / Eye for eye, Centre d’Art de la Ville de Lyon, Lyon, FRANCE
New work: Collection Priveé

2000

Paris PHOTO 2000 - Salon Internationale pour Photographie , Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, FRANCE

5th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon - Partage d’exotisme, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, FRANCE
New work: Body of Christ in 12 Parts. Gifted by the Artist. With support from Creative New Zealand

1999

TATAU : Polynesian Tattoo, Völkerkunde Museum of Ethnolog, Köln GERMANY
O’le Tatau Samoa - Tattoo Art of Samoa / acquisition

1998

Inei / Konei : The Pacific in Photo Art from Aotearoa, The John Curtin Gallery, Perth, WA, AUSTRALIA

1997

Inei / Konei : The Pacific in Photo Art from Aotearoa, Australian Centre for Photography,Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA

Re-Resurrection of Art Space, Artspace, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND Commissioned new work: Re-Resurrection poster

1994

Bottled Ocean, City Gallery. Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Commissioned new work: Uprising, mixed technique photo sculpture.

2024

SouthLink ARTS Festival / International Artist Residency, TAIWAN
Commissioned new works + new acquisition The Creation of ADAM + Anatomy of a TATAU Lesson

2022

BLOOD RED 2.0, ESADHAR/ École Supérieure d’Art & Design Le Havre/Rouen, Le Havre, FRANCE

2017

BLOOD RED, Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Commissioned new works, multimedia installation supported by Australian Council for the Arts, Queensland Government, Australian Government, Cairns Art Gallery + Alcaston Gallery

2016

Collection + Greg SEMU, SCAF / Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Survey show + new work After Hans Holbein the Younger / Dead body of Christ in the tomb

Raft of the Tagata Pasifika (people of the pacific), NGV / National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
New work, light box installation supported by Creative New Zealand + the Wallace Arts Trust

" 12 ", Cairns Art Gallery, Cairns, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Survey show of 12 photographs

2015

Two Bodies, two landscapes - Zwei Körper, Zwei Landschaften, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, GERMANY
New work, multimedia installation. Supported by Creative New Zealand

2014

Battle of the Noble Savage, Te Manawa Museum of Art, Science and History, Palmerston North, NEW ZEALAND

2013

The Last Cannibal Supper, because tomorrow we become Christians, Satellite Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA
Supported by Creative New Zealand

2012

Better to Give, The Greg Semu Archive, Auckland Art Gallery / Toi o Tamaki, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

The Last Cannibal Supper, galerie METROPOLIS, Paris, FRANCE

2011

The Battle of the Noble Savage, City Gallery, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND

2010

The Last Cannibal Supper, because tomorrow we become Christians, Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, Noumea, NEW CALEDONIA
Commissioned new work + survey show. Multimedia installation

2009

Strictly Samoan / Aussie Aiga, Penrith Regional Gallery + The Lewers Bequest, Penrith, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Commissioned new work. Gifted by the artist.

2007

The Seduction of the Saints, Université du Havre - Le Havre, FRANCE

2001

Antipodes, Maison du Livre, de l’Image et du Son / MLIS. Villerbanne, FRANCE
New works

1995

O le Tatau Samoa / The Tattoo Art of Samoa, Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o Tamaki,Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
New work. First Samoan photographer to be acquisition + exhibited into collections.

2019

TTICC (TaiTung Indigenous Centre for Creation Industry Park), TaiTung, TAIWAN

2016-17

Waverly Artist Studios, Bondi, NSW, AUSTRALIA

2014-15

Creative New Zealand Visual Arts Residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, GERMANY

2011

Elcho Island Arts Centre, Elcho Island Galiwinku, NT, AUSTRALIA

2010

Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre - Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture / ADCK, Nouméa, NEW CALEDONIA

2010

Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW, AUSTRALIA

2009

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung City, TAIWAN

2008

Unitec / Institute of Technology, Auckland, NEW ZEALAND

2007

Musée du Quay Branly, Paris, FRANCE
La premier artist en residence / first artist in residence

2017

BLOOD RED Exhbition, Cairns Art Gallery, Queensland, AUSTRALIA
Community arts project. Solo

2016

After Hans Holbein the Younger, Dead Body of Christ, Collection +: Greg SEMU, SCAF-Sherman Contemporary Arts Foundation, Sydney, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Solo

2012

Self portrait with Pe’a, Sentinel Road - Herne Bay, Home AKL Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery - Toi o Tamaki. Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Group exhibition

2010

The Last Cannibal Supper, because tomorrow we become Christians, Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre - ADCK. Noumea, NEW CALEDONIA
Community arts project. Solo

Body on the Line, Body Pacifica Exhibition, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre + NRL. Liverpool. NSW, AUSTRALIA
Group exhibition

2009

Sacrifice for Glory, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts. Kaohsiung, TAIWAN
Community arts project

2008

Aussie Aiga, Strictly Samoan exhibition, Penrith Regional Gallery + Lewers Bequest. Penrith. NSW, AUSTRALIA
Community arts project

2007

Battle of the Noble Savage, The Scrum of Cultures / La Mêlée des cultures, Musée du Quai Branly / Jacques Chirac. Paris, FRANCE
Rugby World 2007. Artist response

2000

Body of Christ in 12 Parts : II, Paris Photo 2000, Salon International de la Photographie. Carousel du Louvre. Paris, FRANCE

1998

Picturing Samoa : Photographs by Thomas Andrew, Inaugural Opening (group),Museum of New Zealand / Tepapa Tongarewa. Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Collaborative artist response with museum collections. Community arts project

1997

Re-resurrection, Inaugural Opening, Artspace. Auckland, NEW ZEALAND
Group exhibition

1994

Uprising, Bottled Ocean Exhibition, City Gallery. Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Group exhibition

2023

Finalist / NAKED + NUDE Art Prize 2023, Manning Regional Art Gallery, NSW, AUSTRALIA
"The RAPE"

2021

Finalist / Royal Over-Seas League Photography Biennale 2021-International Friendship, Over-Seas House, London, UK
Looking through the Window - Portrait of Tereza Crvenkovic

Finalist / 2021 Sovereign Asian Art Prize, The Sovereign Art Foundation, HONG KONG
THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK AND OTHER COLONIAL CATASTROPHES from the series RED COATS + INDIANS / The Games We Play

2020

Finalist / Bowness Prize. MGA / Monash Gallery of Art, VIC, AUSTRALIA
Battle Cry from the series RED COATS + INDIANS / The Games We Play

2018

Finalist / 65th BLAKE Prize. CPAC / Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool City, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Dead body of Christ in Two Parts, Diptych. Parts 1 + 2

2013

Finalist / 62nd BLAKE Prize. COFA / Sydney College of Fine Art, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Head of John the Baptist, video mixed technique installation

Winner / “People’s Choice” award, 62nd BLAKE Prize. COFA / Sydney College of Fine Art, NSW, AUSTRALIA
Head of John the Baptist, video mixed technique installation

2011

Finalist / Asia Pacific Breweries Foundation Signature Art Prize 2011. SAM / Singapore Art Museum, SINGAPORE
The Last Cannibal Supper, because tomorrow we become Christians, light box photo installation

AUSTRALIA

Artbank
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Bendigo Art Gallery Collection
Cairns Regional Art Gallery
Casula Powerhouse Art Centre
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest
Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art
RMIT, Melbourne
SCAF / Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation

FRANCE

La Maison du Livre, de l'Image et du Son, Villeurbanne
MAC Lyon / Musée d‘arts Contemporain, Lyon
Musée du Quai Branly

GERMANY

Humboldt Forum Museum
Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde Frankfurt

NEW CALEDONIA

Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre

NEW ZEALAND

Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki
Hocken Collections, University of Otago
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Pātaka Art + Museum
The James Wallace Arts Trust

TAIWAN

Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts